Sample Stacks

[Richard Gaskin]

hh wrote:

 > Jacques LG wrote:
 >> We can upload zip files to Sample Stacks?  ...
 >
 > No.

Unfortunate.  Hopefully that will be changed soon. Zip is a common 
foundation for many compound document types.

 > But you can, of course, use a stack container for zips.

I used to do that, but ever since the IDE introduced the limitation 
about stack name conflicts, and the ongoing confusion about what is and 
isn't in memory stemming from the lack of a purge command, I've since 
migrated to using LSON (encoded arrays) as the LC-native solution for 
compound-element storage.

LSON offers pretty much all the benefits of property sets in stack 
files, but with all the predictable ease of working with any data stored 
in an array variable.

Of course the one thing stack files are better at than anything else is 
when you need to store LC controls.  Many alternatives, none as compact 
or convenient.

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